《愛(ài)情筆記》是一部細(xì)膩生動(dòng)的戀愛(ài)過(guò)程全記錄。 其間,才子德波頓細(xì)述一段情緣中的邂逅、迷戀、平凡中的幸福、熟悉后的倦怠、女友移情別戀、挽回?zé)o望、自殺、醒悟,以至一段情完全成為過(guò)去。他認(rèn)真思辯自己的感覺(jué),忠實(shí)記下與女友交往中的各個(gè)細(xì)節(jié),特別是心理和哲學(xué)層面的思考,文字生動(dòng)、處處機(jī)鋒,不僅有極大的閱讀樂(lè)趣,閱畢更令人回味無(wú)窮。

作者簡(jiǎn)介:阿蘭·德波頓(Alain de Botton),英倫才子型作家,生于1969年,畢業(yè)于劍橋大學(xué),現(xiàn)住倫敦。著有小說(shuō)《愛(ài)情筆記》(1993)、《愛(ài)上浪漫》(1994)、《親吻與訴說(shuō)》(1995)及散文作品《擁抱逝水年華》(1997)、《哲學(xué)的慰藉》(2000)、《旅行的藝術(shù)》(2002)。他的作品已被譯成二十幾種文字。(以上介紹轉(zhuǎn)自一舟博客)

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?1,If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone?
如果玩世不恭和愛(ài)情位于對(duì)立的兩端,那么有時(shí)候我們不是用相愛(ài)來(lái)逃避自己耽于其中、從而遭其弱化的玩世不恭嗎?

小Car筆記:
cynicism:玩世不恭
spectrum:范圍
debilitating:弱化,使削弱

?2,Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain wilful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?
每一例一見(jiàn)鐘情中不是都有對(duì)心愛(ài)之人品質(zhì)的故意夸張?這種夸張的贊美使我們只會(huì)把精力傾注在自己草率而神奇地相信的那張臉上,不致使理想破滅。

小Car筆記:
coup de foudre:我們之間
wilful:故意的
distract……from……:使從……分心
habitual pessimism:習(xí)慣性悲觀
focus A on B:把A集中在B

?3,I lost Chloe amidst the throng at passport control, but found her again in the luggage-reclaim area.
我和克洛艾在海關(guān)出口處走散了,后來(lái)又在行李提取處找到了她。

小Car筆記:
amidst:在……之中
passport control:護(hù)照檢查出,海關(guān)出口

?4,She was struggling to push a trolley cursed with an inclination to steer to the right, though the Paris carousel was to the far left of the hall.
她正使勁推著一輛手推車。雖然從巴黎方向來(lái)的行李的傳送帶在大廳左邊很遠(yuǎn)處,但那輛手推車卻總往右扭。

小Car筆記:
cursed with:被,因……而遭殃
carousel:(機(jī)場(chǎng))行李傳送帶;旋轉(zhuǎn)木馬

?5,Because my trolley had no mind of its own, I walked over to offer it to her, but she refused, saying one should remain loyal to trolleys, however stubborn, and that strenuous physical exercise was no bad thing after a flight.
我的車靈活自如,所以我便推過(guò)去讓給他用,但她拒絕了,說(shuō)不管車有多澀,主人都應(yīng)該對(duì)它忠實(shí),還說(shuō)飛行之后做點(diǎn)運(yùn)動(dòng)也有好處的。?

小Car筆記:
loyal to:忠于……
physical exercise:運(yùn)動(dòng),體育鍛煉

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